UCSC Philosophy

Paul A. Roth

Professor & Chair of Philosophy

Office: Cowell College A112 Mailing Address: Professor Paul Roth Cowell Academic Services University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: Office: (831) 459-2191 Email: paroth@ucsc.edu

Areas of Interest

• Philosophy of social science
• Philosophy and sociology of science
• Epistemiology
• History of analytic philosophy

Also affiliated with Jewish Studies

• B.A., Wesleyan University
• M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable

An ongoing research conference that I co-created and continue to co-direct and periodically host.

Representative Publications (Click on a title to view the PDF:

• (2008) "The Epistemology of Science after Quine," in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, eds, New York: Routledge.
  
  
• (2007) "Naturalism without Fears," in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 15: Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord, eds, The Netherlands: Elsevier.

• (2004) "Hearts of darkness: 'perpetrator history' and why there is no why," in History of the Human Sciences, Volume 17(2/3): 211-251

• (2003) "Mistakes," in Synthese, Vol. 136: 389-408
  

• (2002) "Ways of pastmaking," in History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 15(4): 125-143

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